Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
JENNIFER’S JET TERROR
Star opens up about engine failure
JENNIFER Lawrence has revealed her terror as she feared she would die on a private plane after it suffered engine failure.
The Oscar winner was flying by jet from her home town of Louisville, Kentucky, to New York City when the traumatic experience occurred in 2017.
Hunger Games star Lawrence also revealed she started praying when she discovered one of the two engines had failed that her dog would survive and “she would not lose her hair”.
The actress, who is expecting her first child with her art gallery director husband Cooke Maroney, recalled feeling guilty and told Vanity Fair: “I know, flying private, I deserve to die.”
Lawrence, 31, was so convinced her time was up on the private plane she was travelling on with her brothers, she said: “My skeleton was all that was left in the seat. We were all just going to die. I started leaving little mental voicemails to my family, you know, ‘I’ve had a great life, I’m sorry’.”
Lawrence, who was asked why she apologised, added: “I just felt guilty. Everybody was going to be so bummed. And, oh, God, Pippi was on my lap, that was the worst part. Here’s this little thing who didn’t ask to be a part of any of this.”
The star recalled seeing the runway which was packed with emergency services and said: “I started praying. Not to the specific God I grew up with, because he was terrifying and a very judgmental guy.
“But I thought, ‘Oh, my God, maybe we’ll survive this? I’ll be a burn victim, this will be painful, but maybe we’ll live. Please, Lord Jesus, let me keep my hair. Wrap me in your hair-loving arms. Please don’t let me go bald’.”